Monday, November 18, 2013
Day 18: Negative Space
I've been wanting to draw the corner of our grape arbor with its withering leaves, but it's been too cold and wet, so today I brought some leaves inside. Early on, it was clear that they were going to look very plain, drawn on the toned paper. I remembered Kalina's dramatic black brush pen work, so I thought I'd add some black to the negative spaces. I was listening to a very interesting radio program and probably got a little carried away, but I had a good time. Yesterday's rule about not using markers for leaves has already been broken. So much for rules.
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This is gorgeous! Love the dramatic contrast with the black ink and how you've used just splashes of color here and there, leaving some of the dry leaves the plain tone of the paper. Bravo, bravo.
Thank you, Katura!
Very dramatic! These leaves look alive!
Cool technique.
Yes, very dramatic! The negative space is often as interesting as the positive, of which this piece is an example.
Janene, I agree with you about negative space often being as interesting as the positive. In this case, it was the edges of the leaves that were more interesting to me than the inside.
Thank you for your comment.
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